Grenoble INP-UGA / G-SCOP laboratory

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Grenoble Institute of Engineering and Management, part of Université Grenoble Alpes, is a group of eight engineering schools and one management school in France. The institution is renowned for its collaborative ties with many industries and research centers. G-SCOP laboratory, is a joint research unit (UGA, GINP and CNRS) in the domain of Industrial Engineering, where key research topics include new forms of decentralized production, open design and sustainability.

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The G-SCOP laboratory (Grenoble Research center on Sciences for Design, Optimization, and Production) is a multidisciplinary laboratory tackling the scientific challenges in the deeply evolving industrial landscape. It mainly focuses on the development of advanced models and tools to improve efficiency, sustainability and competitiveness of modern industrial systems. The laboratory unites experts from various fields like STIC (Computer and information sciences) and SPI (Engineering Sciences) to address complex problems in design, manufacturing, logistics, production systems and supply chain management.
G-SCOP is deeply engaged in fundamental and applied research, collaborating with academic institutions, industry partners and research networks such as The Design Society, CIRP (The International Academy for Production Engineering), EURO (European Operational Research Societies). Key technological platforms at G-SCOP include:

  • The Vision-R platform, features interaction and observation rooms in virtual and augmented reality to develop and test best solutions for multi-actor work situations.
  • Additive Manufacturing Platform, enabling development and experimentation of new metallic additive manufacturing technologies.
  • Operations Management Platform, for the simulation and optimization of production operations and supply chains.

Our role in the project

GINP, together with UGA and through G-SCOP laboratory, has a long-standing history of research projects in manufacturing and engineering. It will leverage this expertise to support LAUDS with the following missions:

  • Work Package 1 leader: Participatory design and manufacturing co-creation methods & synergies, dedicated to study and develop the collaborative capacity of the actors, while creating collaborative synergies for local industrial models based on existing territorial resources (SMEs, maker spaces, artisans).
    The goal is to establish the requirements and guidelines for implementing the LAUDS model.
  • Develop a local readiness level scale based on the maturity model to evaluate and enhance collaboration within the LAUDS project stakeholders.
  • Contribute to the formulation of product requirements for implementing the LAUDS factories, based on sustainability, openness and quality criteria.
  • Derive technical capacities and stakeholder needs for LAUDS digital and physical infrastructure and interact with this framework to ensure its effectiveness.
  • Accompany LAUDS factories project to sharpen the requirements, identify new potentials and barriers of implementation and establish an evaluation/validation methodology.
  • Communicate the project and disseminate its results through our industry and academic networks and participate in the outreach activities.

Our expertise

G-SCOP is renowned for its multidisciplinary research, specializing in industrial engineering and integrating emerging technologies, social sciences and sustainability principles to tackle industrial challenges. The laboratory consists of six research teams focused on key areas of expertise in design, optimization, and production systems:

  • Collaborative and Integrated Design (CCI): Focuses on complex interactions between stakeholders in product and service design, proposing tools and methods to improve collaboration in new productive organizations.
  • Product-Process Design and Integration (CIPP): Adapts to digital advancements by developing models and tools to control manufacturing processes while integrating technical, societal, and environmental constraints.
  • Systemic Design: Human, Environment, Technologies (COSYS): Implements sustainability and Eco-design principles, with user-centered approaches in modern industry.
  • Combinatorial Optimization (OC): A branch of mathematical programming, focused on finding the best solution among a large set of possibilities and designing efficient algorithms based on problem structure.
  • Design, Operations Management, and Engineering of Systems and Services (DOME2S): Develops models and methods to optimize production systems for products and services, ensuring their performance under uncertainties.
  • Grenoble Operations Research Group (GROG): Uses operations research tools and techniques to optimize the performance of production systems during design and operational phases.